3700 nets donated in September

Following is the press release from the September 14, 2010 delivery of 3700 mosquito nets to Angolan humanitarian organizations: — The Angola Mosquito Nets Project has been operational since 2000 and has raised approximately $175,000 from individual donors in Angola and overseas and from Angola-based oil companies and oil service companies.  The funds are used [...]

Angola Mosquito Net Project reaches the province of Bie

Teachers in rural areas and women participating in a micro credit program were the happy recipients of mosquitonets donated by our project to the international NGO, Concern Worldwide, which is working in the province of Bie. Approximately 500 teachers and administrative staff received nets and about 200 women who depend on their small vegetable farms [...]

Universo magazine features AMNP

The Angola Mosquto Net Project is featured in the latest issue of Universo magazine in an article about mosquito net distribution in Angola. The article is titled ‘Biting Back’ and can be read on Universo’s digital edition, pages 20 to 25 at http://view.vcab.com/?vcabid=enaSrrlcSccapgl. Universo is published in Angola by Sonangol. Also featured in the article: [...]

Angola Mosquito Net Project featured in Vida magazine

The Angola Mosquito Net Project’s Committe Chairman Tako Koning was interviewed by Angola’s Vida mgazine, as part of their coverage of World Malaria Day on April 25. Click to download a PDF of the article, published on April 21. Vida is Angola’s popular arts, culture and business magazine that is printed weekly in Luanda. In [...]

Nets donated to the Mobile Clinic

The Angola Mosquitonet Project donated 700 nets in January to the Mobile Clinic, a small team of women who work with some of the 350 patients at the Tuberculosis Hospital in Luanda. Headed up by Bernie Nicholson, a registered nurse who formed the group six years ago, the women get donations to buy food and [...]

New findings about malaria in Luanda

Read some recently published information about malaria in urban Luanda: Download a PDF of the five page report published in March 2009 in The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene journal, titled: “How Much Malaria Occurs in Urban Luanda, Angola? A Health Facility-Based Assessment” Download a PDF  of the ‘Health facility-based evaluation of malaria [...]

Good things come in small packages

Although the MosquitoNet Project is small, for eight years we’ve been operating as volunteers with zero spent on overhead. We have managed to raise over $100,000 which translates into about 12,500 nets. Assuming that three or four people sleep under one family size net, this is equivalent to protection for at least 30,000 individuals. The [...]

Why the grim malaria stats for children?

Doctor diagnosing a child with malaria in Cunene province, Angola. We know mosquito nets are important for young children because they are more vulnerable to malaria, but why? According to the Angola Malaria Indicator Survey*, for about six months following birth, antibodies acquired from the mother during pregnancy protect children born in areas of endemic [...]

Update on latest mosquito net distribution

On April 30, 2008, the Mosquito Net Project celebrated their 6th net distribution by giving nets to the following organizations: Concern in Bie province (education program), Development Workshop (Local initiatives Program), Baptist Church medical centre M’Banza Congo, Missionary Scott McHaney for Baptist churches in Uige and the Lundas, the Palanca Negra Shepherds Program (Malange), Women [...]

We did it!

The Angola Mosquitonet Project has exceeded the $100,000 mark thanks to a private donation of $1,500 received from a ‘Tullow Dublin Family’. This donation means we can purchase more nets and now include in our distribution the province of Cunene in the southern part of Angola. A group of 30 trained local maternal health care [...]